The new U.S. secretary of State tells Chinese counterpart his country should ‘use all available tools’ to pressure Pyongyang

BONN, Germany—U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told China’s foreign minister that his country should “use all available tools” to confront North Korea’s provocations, a State Department spokesman said, as Beijing and Washington held their highest-level meeting since President Donald Trump took office.

Mr. Tillerson and Wang Yi met for about an hour Friday morning in Bonn, on the sidelines of a meeting of foreign ministers of the Group of 20 leading industrialized and emerging nations.